#desires

When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

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Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human. ↗

— Bo Bennett

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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. ↗

— Sitting Bull

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Unfortunately, however, I have too many desires to make a good Buddhist. ↗

— Jim Coleman

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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced. ↗

— John Ruskin

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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ↗